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Established in 2008 in response to student and community interest, the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures (AMESALL) at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey continues a long tradition of scholarly excellence and innovative teaching in the languages and literatures of Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. Read More...

New in 2014: AMESALL will be offering a section of Urdu at Rutgers for the first time during the Fall semester, contingent upon student interest. If you would like to participate, please register for 01:013:160 "Elementary Hindi" Section 03, which is subtitled "Elementary Urdu."

New in 2016: AMESALL will be offering a new Global Humanities Major this Fall 2016.

Requirements for the *NEW* Global Humanities Major

36 credit hours, of which 9 must be at the 300 level or above

All majors must take the following three courses

013:201: Crossroads

013:205: Cultural Forces in International Politics

013:401: Capstone Seminar in Literature, Culture and Society

In addition majors must take at least two courses from each of the following two categories:

Transregional Sociolinguistics Courses

013:115: History of the Alphabet

013:203: Language and Society

013:285: Language and Globalization

013:305: Languages in Peril

013:409: Introduction to Semitic Languages

013:xxx: Language and Universal Human Rights (To be created)

Transregional Culture courses

013:304: Translation Studies

013:307: Intro to Postcolonial Literature and Theory (with CL)

013:324: Ottoman Africa

013:412: Literature and Religion

013:445: Storytelling in the Muslim World

013:XXX: Global Bollywood (To be created)

Majors must also take at least 3 courses (a total of 9) in any combination of their choice, from the following:

African Literature/Cinema courses

Middle Eastern literature/Cinema courses

South Asian literature/cinema courses

Majors will take at least 6 credits hours, in any combination of their choice from the following